Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Tuesday Night Blogs: Dorothy L. Sayers

There is a change in this month's programme: the writer is Dorothy L. Sayers who has figured a number of times on the Conservative History Blog and so I have decided to write about her there and link each week from here. I shall also be collecting other other postings on the subject and will put up the links here and there.

First off the mark is Kate Jackson with a very carefully analyzed piece (as befits the subject) on Gaudy Night, that marmite of a novel, published on her blog, crossexaminingcrime.

Moira Redmond on Clothes in Books writes about the first four Wimsey novels. These are generally described as being weaker than the later ones but I am not so sure. The plot of The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club and the detection in it are, in my opinion, are the best in the entire canon.

Noah Stewart on Noah's Archives produces a pictorial collection of the many different Sayers titles, including The Recipe Book of the Mustard Club, for which Sayers's husband, Mac Fleming, contributed most of the recipes.

On The Art of Words Lucy Fisher picks up on some infuriating "corrections" that actually make nonsense of the original and some misunderstood emphases.